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Patented Mar. 26, 1929.

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

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Application filed May 7, 1928. Serial No. 275,849.

My invention relates to a blank book particularly, although notexclusively, adapted to contain a supply of blank checks or the liketogether with stubs for the entry of memoranda relative to the issuedchecks.

It is my object to provide a book of this kind, the superficial area orsize of which is reduced to a minimum by a novel arrangement of stub andcheck blanks.

Other objects of this invention are to facilitate drawing checks andentry of memoranda on the stubs by eliminating the usual obstructions inbooks of this kind while 10- cating the exposed stubs directly oppositethe corresponding blank checks and otherwise adapting the device to theconvenience and established custom of the users. The invention alsoincludes certain other novel features of construction which will appearand be more fully pointed out in the following specification and claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 isa plan view of my improved check book in openposition; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section of the same showing the frontortop coverin closed position and taken on the line 2-.-2 of Fig. 1;Fig. 3 is a similar sectional .view but'taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1;Fig. l is a section taken on the line t4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is aperspective view ofthe book in'open position and with only one set ofthe blanks in place on the binding members; Fig. 6 is a bottom plan Viewof the metal support and locking means for the binding members; Fig. 7is a detail plan view of the supportand binding members removed from thecovers and Fig. 8 is an enlarged section taken on the line 88 of Fig. 7.

My improved book is preferably provided with a. rigid back cover 9connected by a hinge member 10 with a front or top cover 11. Along onemargin of the back-cover 9 is secured a metal support 12 having 'a pairof binding posts 13 and U-shaped binding members 14 projectingtherefrom. The posts 13 are rigidly secured to the support 12 and havetapped holes in their upper ends to receive binding screws 15. TheU-shaped binding members 14 are preferably made removable and provided,with a lockingmeans like that described in .my copending application,Serial #207,423, filed July 21st, 1927. Thus hollow impaling members 16are rigidly secured to the support 12 andeach arranged to receive oneend of a- U-shaped member 14. The other endof the member 14 has a kcrf17 to receive a. slidable locking bar 18, the kerfed end beinginsertable into an opening in the support 12, as best shown in Fig. 8.The bar 18 is slidable upon the bottom surface of the support 12 and hasan upturned flange 19 on one end which accessible for operating thelock. Suitable guide tongues 20 and 21 are struck downward from thesupport 12 to engage the lateral edges of the bar 18, the tongue 21being arranged to limit movement of the bar 18 by engagement with a slot22 in an edge of the same. Notches 23 are cut in an edge of the bar 18to register with the kerfs 17 in the members 14 so that said members maybe released and withdrawn from the support 12 and impaling members 16. 1

Sheets 2 1 of blank stubs are interleaved bet-ween sheets 25 of blankchecks in the formation of a rectangular body or pad for insertionbetween the covers 9 and 11. Each of the sheets 25 has a marginalprojection 26 which is perforated to receive the binding posts 13. Thesieets 24 of stubs are cut away atthcir margins where they wouldotherwise register with the project-ions 26. Thus each of the sheets 24has a pair of marginal projections 27. These projections 27 are formedwith perforations 28 adapted to receive the U-shaped binding members 1 1and impaling members 16. i

It will now be understood that separate binding members are provided forthe blank checks and stubs respectively, so that when the frontcover isextended in open. position all ofthe sheets 24 of stubs may be removedfrom-the top or superficial sheet 25 of blank checks and laid, flat atthe opposite side of the binding members. Boththe top sheet of checksand corresponding stubs arethus exposed in the most convenientarrangement for writing thereon.

As illustrated, each of the sheets 25 is divided into three check blanksby perforating along parallel lines 29 and two of the sheets 25areplaced between adjacent sheets 24 in the formation of the body ofblanks. To facilitate tearing out the checks as they are drawn, thesheets 25 are also perforated along a line 80 forming the junctionbetween the check blanks and. the marginal projections 26. To furtherfacilitate tearing along the line 30, I prefer to placea bar 31.11ponthe top projection 26, this bar being perforated to receive the bindingscrews 15. The several projections 26 are gripped or bound together,independently of the projections 27 on thesheets 24, by turning down thescrews 15. into theposts 13.

Each of the sheets 2 L be divided by lines 33 and 84, or otherwiseprinted upon, to afford the same number of blank stubs on a sheet 24: asthere are blank checks upon the corresponding sheets 25. As shown, sixstubs are indicated on a sheet 24, in two vertical columns of threeeach. The three stubs in a column are directly opposite tee threecorresponding checks on a sheet 25. Two of the sheets are provided foreach sheet 24: so that'the proper stub blank is always exposed oppositethe superficial 'or top check blank. Because of my arrangement'of thestub blanks horizontallyopposite the correspondingchecks, the devicemeets the requirements of users most of whom are in the habit ofentering the stub memoranda opposite a check when it is drawn.

As will now bereadily understood, when 1t is desired to insert a body ofblanks, with stubs interleaved between the checks, the U- shaped bindingmembers 14 may be removed from the support 12 by sliding the locking bar.18 to a position where the notches 23 register with the kerfs 17. Thisfrees the members 14' that they may be withdrawn from the impalingmembers 10. The screws 15 are removed together with 'the bar 3 so thatthe posts 13 and impaling member 16 are free to receive the body ofblanks having perforated marginalprojections 26 and 27. Now the blanksmay be quickly and easily positioned with the binding members inengagement with the marginal projections and the bar 31 and screws 15may then be replaced to bind the check blanks together. To bindthesheets 24 of stub blanks together, it is only necessary to insert oneend of each of the members 14- into a hollow impaling member 16 and theother end through the opening in the support 12 adjacent to the lockingbar 18. Finally the edge of lhe bar 18' is returned to interlockingrelation -with the members 14 by sliding 1t longiblanks.

tudinally into the kerfs' 17 The body of blanks thus inserted andsecured in place is composed of sheets of blank stubs equal in size tothe sheets of check his feature of the invention promotes convenienthandling of the blanks before and after binding and makes it possible toutilize the same, or a like, cover to bind the stub memoranda forsubsequent reference and filing.

' Binding means other than those illustrated may beemployed within thespirit of my invention and I do not wish to limit the invention to itsuse 'with any particular means for separatelybindin'g the interleavedcheck and stub blanks.

Having described my invention what I claim is new and desire to protectby Letters Patent is:

1. A check book comprising interleaved stub and check blanks, marginalprojections on the cheek blanks superimposed one upon another in aseries, means for binding said projections together, separate marginalprojections on said stub blanks and loose leal binding means engagingsaid projerlions on the stub blenlzs adapted to permit separation ofthelatter one at a time from the unused check blanks.

2. A check hook comprising inlerleaved stub and check blanks, marginalprojections on the check blanks, means for binding said projectionstogether, separate marginal projections on said stub blanks and arcunlebinding members engaging said projections on the stub blanks adapted topermit separation of the latter one at a time from the unused checkblanks.

A check book comprising interleaved sheets of check and stub blanks, acover, impaling member near a margin of said cover, marginal projectionson said check blank, means for binding said projections together abovesaid margin of said support, arcuale sheet retaining members connectedto said impaling members and. separate marginal projections on said stubblanks pcrloral'ml to receive said arcuate and impaling members, saidstub blanks being arranged to be separated from the unused check blanksand transferred lo the opposite side of said impaling members while inengagement with said arcuate members.

5t. A check book comprising interleaved sheets of check and stub blanksof substantially equal size, a cover, a binder support extending along amargin of said cover, marginal projections on said check blanks, meansfor binding said projections together upon said support, a pair ofarcual'e binding members secured lo said support and sepa rate marginalprojections on said stub blanks perforated to receive said arcualcbinding members, said stub blanks being arranged to be separated fromthe unused check blanks and transferred to the opposite side of saidsupport while 'in engagement with. said arcuate binding members.

5. In a check book, front and back covers foldably secured together andarranged to lie flat when in open position, sheet-impaling members neara margin of said back cover, a body of interleaved check and stub blanksadapted to be secured to said back cover. marginal projections on saidcheck blanks. separatemarginal projections on said stub blanks, sheetretaining members connecled to said impaling members and engaging saidlast-mentioned projections and means for binding said projections on thecheck blanks together independently of said impafling members, said stubblanks being arranged to be separated from the unused check blanks andtransferred to the opposite side of said impaling members While inengagement with said sheet retaining members whereby the check blanksand corresponding stub blanks may be laid flat and simultaneouslyexposed upon the back and front covers for writing thereon.

6. In a check book, front and back covers foldably secured together andarranged to lie flat when in open position, two pairs of impalingmembers disposed along a margin of said back cover, a body ofinterleaved check and stub blanks, marginal projections on said checkblanks perforated to receive one pair of said impaling members, separatemarginal projections on said stub blanks perforated to receive the otherpair of impaling members, a pair of arcuate members connected to theimpaling members and engaging said last-mentioned projections and meansfor binding said projections on the check blanks together independentlyof the stub blanks, said stub blanks being arranged to be separated fromthe unused check blanks and transferred to the opposite side of saidimpaling members while in engagement with said arcuate members wherebythe check blanks and corresponding stub blanks may be laid flat upon theback and front covers inexposed positions for Writing thereon.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name to thisspecification.

WILLIAM R. HOTCHKISS.

